The main
topic related to AI was inspired by a speculative paper "Industrial
Artificial Intelligence Has Been Built in Russia" recently submitted to
isicad.ru and rejected by our editorial board. Based on my long experience of working
in internationally recognized Soviet and Russian AI research institutions, I explained
the difference between interpretation of "computer intelligence" by
common people and comparatively modest achievements in expert systems, automatic
understanding of natural language, speech and image recognition and so on. By
the way, note that in Russian language "intelligence" is something
far beyond logical inference, reasoning and such things, it is something which
is expected to be able to feel, to have intuition - i.e. in Russia, the words
"artificial intelligence" are commonly understood strongly anthropomorphic...

I can
hardly translate my almost belletristic Russian text... Well, one remark I made is that as science and technology will probably be developing
more and more intelligent systems, we cannot exclude that average level of the
mankind intelligence will continue to be falling down; and in the long run, the
Turing test may become meaningless...